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by xirdstl 10y ago
I have to agree. When I encounter those, I usually tune out or click away.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
I grew up in the Midwest, and among my peers I grew up with (born in 1980), home ownership is the norm. This is particularly true for those with children.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
I don't think that's right. The percentage of living alone has also grown a lot recently, according to the graphs in the article.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
Or not necessarily unable to partner, but don't care to.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
Perhaps the peak romantic-cohabitation in the 1960s is the anomaly, and we're now retreating back towards something more sustainable. Consider that it is normal to live with parents in many other countries.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
I'd guess it depends a lot on how much you use the GPS. I've had mine for about six weeks, and I charge it once per week.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
It's not perfect, but I just use an iPod shuffle for audio while I run. I find that preferable to bringing my phone. I don't do audible books, but it is supported.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
Are there other devices with wrist HR measuring that are appreciably better? My understanding is that if you want very precise monitoring, you're going to need a chest strap.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
These review/rating popups really annoy me, though the mechanism they're using in this post might not be as bad. Can you imagine if websites nagged you in this same way? Why do we think it's an acceptable user experience to n
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by xirdstl 10y ago
We use JSONSchema in several places. It has met our needs pretty well, particularly for dynamic form generation (using the angular-schema-form library)
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by xirdstl 10y ago
Ah, the pre-USB interfaces. The most fun I had was figuring out how to read the input from an old shipping scale which had serial port output. That powered my keg monitoring server, which I eventually wrote mobile apps for. It was the best
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by xirdstl 10y ago
I like to imagine that particular XKCD was written with Java logging in mind.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
That includes Messenger. Is Messenger just IM? If so, that estimate makes more sense. Do they serve ads there too?
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by xirdstl 10y ago
This blog post is just an advertisement for the Gradle Summit.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
Out with the old buzzwords, in with the new.
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Kimbia Platform Status Update – May 3rd(kimbia.com)
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by xirdstl 10y ago
I think it's highly dependent on which airport you're at and the current mood of the people working there. Last year I was flying home, and there was a sign in the security line saying they we don't need to remove our shoes o
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by xirdstl 10y ago
Impressive! I remember upgrading to Windows 95 back in the day so I could play Diablo. My PC struggled at the time. It's amazing the kind of portable computing power we have now. Also it's fortunate that he didn't install ME,
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by xirdstl 10y ago
I enjoy audiobooks also, particularly when paired with the Kindle book. I can fairly seamlessly switch back and forth between reading and listening. Interestingly - the price of a Kindle book on Amazon + adding audio to it (which comes from
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by xirdstl 10y ago
Was it ever popular in SV? No. That doesn't mean no one is using or cares about it. For my day job, we use Groovy for our Spring Boot app. I love it. I've also done a lot of Grails development, which I enjoyed also.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
Maybe, but that has to be a long way out. I can see what the parent describes happening well before brain-to-text.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
It is wise for most companies not to rush to the bleeding edge as technology changes.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
That's true, especially if you have someone with a chip card who, out of habit, first tries swiping it. It takes him awhile to realize the swipe didn't work and that the reader is prompting him to insert the card into the chip rea
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by xirdstl 10y ago
I thought the same thing. I saw the movie first, and then decided to read the book because a friend said it was a lot better. I didn't finish the book.
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by xirdstl 10y ago
Some of us prefer the smaller size but would otherwise like the same features. I would certainly agree that 3D touch is the one feature I could definitely do without. I never use it on my 6S.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
How about the 90s, when boxes came in all shapes and sizes. I loved collecting them, and conversely (as I worked retail), I loathed stocking them.
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by xirdstl 11y ago
To take it a step further than "test our API and show us the cool thing we could build with it", I think it's also "you young, bright programmers, show us which of you is willing to work yourselves to death for whatever
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by xirdstl 11y ago
This is a divisive issue, and originally I found myself agreeing with this post, because, in general, I expect a conference to about mature professionals focusing on the craft. That said, LambdaConf advertises itself as a "magical plac
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by xirdstl 11y ago
One problem with the IoT for consumers is that in many cases we're replacing devices that we're used to lasting many years, but vendors want them to have the lifetime of a smartphone. We're still in an early adopter phase on
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by xirdstl 11y ago
Do you like working on those things in your spare time? The flip side of what you seek is that with a more challenging day job, you may not have as much energy or desire to tackle those projects in your spare time.

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